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Century Foundation Fellow Asks If Trump's Victory the Jump-Start Civics Education Needed

Release Date:

11/11/2016

Century Foundation Fellow Asks If Trump's Victory the Jump-Start ... A former top aide to President George W. Bush wrote that in the Republican nominee, “we have reached the culmination ... to the American...

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Former Goldman Sachs Foundation President Among Many GS Leaders Now in Trump Administration

Release Date:

02/03/2017

Former Goldman Sachs Foundation President Among Many GS Leaders Now in Trump Administration For weeks, Donald Trump ran his ... their expertise, or major donors selected for their past support...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Goldman Sachs

Rockefeller Foundation-Backed Executive Survey Finds Continued Bias No. 1 Reason Women Don't Make It To The Top

Release Date:

06/08/2017

Rockefeller Foundation -Backed Executive Survey Finds Continued Bias No. 1 ... available talent regardless of gender." There was little support for other reasons, including "With more women ... models for...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Study Sees Urban Change Via Google Street View

Release Date:

07/06/2017

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation -Backed Study Sees Urban Change Via Google Street ... study urban environments - with an assist from Google. In joint work with Edward L. Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor ... - play...

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Community Development

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Tow Foundation and Chronicle of Social Change Announce 2019 Raise the Age Reporting Fellowships Recipients

Release Date:

02/26/2019

Tow Foundation and Chronicle of Social Change Announce 2019 Raise ... of an ambitious plan to reinvigorate watchdog journalism in the backyards of America's statehouses, The Chronicle of ... New York bureau...

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Justice Reform

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Redlich Horwitz Foundation Releases New Guide and Online Clearinghouse for Counties to Prepare for the Family First Act

Release Date:

10/10/2018

Redlich Horwitz Foundation Releases New Guide and Online Clearinghouse for ... help New York and its counties place more children in foster care with kinship and foster families rather than ... saved $6 million...

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Redlich Horwitz Foundation

Staten Island after Sandy: A Funder Update

Release Date:

04/10/2013

By Betsy Dubovsky, Executive Director, The Staten Island Foundation As a Philanthropy New York member, I’m ... its potential. With a results orientation, we view our grants as investments in...

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07 Nov 2018

One Size Doesn’t Fit All: A Conversation about Education with the Gates Foundation’s Bob Hughes

Wednesday, November 7, 2018 -

3:00pm to 4:30pm

... many years as an advocate and champion of public education in New York City. In 2016 Bob transitioned from being ... the K-12 Strategy Director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation . Just...

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Children, Youth and Families

Education

Burke Foundation Commits to Extend Two Service-Driven Scholarship Programs at Marquette University

Release Date:

08/19/2019

Burke Foundation Commits to Extend Two Service-Driven Scholarship ... university’s Board of Trustees from 1996 to 2005, and in 2005 he was elected trustee emeritus for life in ... are extremely...

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Paula Moreno To Join Ford Foundation Board of Trustees; Kofi Appenteng Elected as Board Chair

Release Date:

06/23/2014

Paula Moreno To Join Ford Foundation Board of Trustees; Kofi Appenteng Elected as Board Chair Paula Moreno has been named to the Ford Foundation 's board of trustees and Kofi Appenteng has been ... and the...

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Open Society Foundations' 6-Month Paid Paternity Leave Leads Generous-Parental-Leave Club

Release Date:

03/30/2016

... Foundations, one of the largest nonprofit organizations in the world, and her organization are leaders in the recent paternity-leave movement gaining momentum at ... of how they chose to use it. This benefit...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Partners With The Nature Conservancy To Explore Nature’s Ability To Mitigate Climate Change

Release Date:

10/20/2017

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Partners With The Nature Conservancy To Explore ... realized climate progress, and many solutions available to us now remain underutilized—especially in the land...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Doris Duke Foundation

Funded In Part by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bard College to Launch ‘Microcollege,’ Targeting Low-Income Applicants

Release Date:

11/01/2017

Funded In Part by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , Bard College to ... degrees elsewhere... Funded In Part by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , Bard College to Launch ‘Microcollege,’ ...

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Mellon Foundation

Barbara Raab and Farai Chideya of the Ford Foundation Noted As Women Who Shall Lead In The News Industry

Release Date:

12/18/2017

Barbara Raab and Farai Chideya of the Ford Foundation Noted As Women Who Shall Lead In The News Industry Women will lead the news ... has not happened in a vacuum. Frederick Douglass tells...

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Ford Foundation

Research Funded By Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads to a Method to Safely Charge a Smartphone Wirelessly Using a Laser

Release Date:

02/21/2018

Research Funded By Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads to a Method to Safely Charge a Smartphone ... mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones let us communicate, work and access information wirelessly, their...

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Technology

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

NY Life Marks Fifth Year of Partnership to Provide Bereavement Services

Release Date:

01/20/2016

... to Provide Bereavement Services The New York Life Foundation today announced that it has committed $1.25 ... serving grieving children across the country. The grants will be given over a two year period and...

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08 Jan 2018

5 Legal Rules Every Foundation Should Know for the 2018 Elections - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Monday, January 8, 2018 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

... first served basis.* Whether a seasoned advocate or at a foundation determined to step into the civic engagement realm ... the breadth of activities foundations can legally engage in and fund while remaining...

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Tools & Strategies

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All Funders

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Civic Engagement

The Wallace Foundation and SMU DataArts Release Report - "The Alchemy of High-Performing Arts Organizations"

Release Date:

08/13/2020

The Wallace Foundation and SMU DataArts Release Report - The Alchemy of High-Performing Arts Organizations SMU DataArts, in partnership with The Wallace Foundation , today released a report—The...

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Philanthropy Has a Duty to Respond Quickly to the COVID-19 Outbreak. Here's How We Can Do It

Release Date:

03/18/2020

... Do It By: Lori Bezahler, President, the Edward W. Hazen Foundation . This article was originally published by Inside ... moment. Convert funding to unrestricted general operating support . Pushing deadlines on...

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Disaster Relief

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

PNY Board Member Kenneth T. Monteiro Appointed General Counsel and Vice President of Ford Foundation

Release Date:

09/08/2014

... Appointed General Counsel and Vice President of Ford Foundation The Ford Foundation has announced the appointment of Kenneth T. ... General Counsel. Mr. Monteiro will succeed Ricardo Castro in...